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to trickle
01
to flow slowly in small amounts or drops
Intransitive: to trickle somewhere
Grammatical Information
Movement verb
Regular
Present tense
trickle
3rd person singular
trickles
Past simple
trickled
Past participle
trickled
Examples
Water trickled down the moss-covered rocks in the stream.
Trickle
01
a small, slow flow of liquid
Grammatical Information
Animacy status
Inanimate
Plural form
trickles
Examples
A trickle of water seeped from the leaky faucet.
02
a small, steady flow of people moving slowly or in small numbers
Examples
A trickle of people entered the museum just after it opened.
